Begin your Enneagram Awakening Journey and become a facilitator in the Embodiment Tradition.
NEXT PROGRAM BEGINS January 2024.
This program is recommended for healing professionals, educators, writers, directors, and facilitators looking to add this system to their professional modalities. Completing this program gives you 75 points towards becoming and Accredited Professional with the International Enneagram Association (IEA).
It is also recommended for personal growth and psycho-spiritual awakening. The enneagram is a powerful tool for transforming painful patterns, becoming free from the contracted sense of self, and embodying the open and expanded qualities of our patterns.
Major Components of the Program
Transform Enneagram patterning and explore deeper truths
Learn to identify and demonstrate the energetics of the Enneagram including instincts and subtypes
Learning to integrate the Enneagram into professional practice
Price
Each type and each retreat is $180 payable in monthly installments. So, $180/month for 11 months.
This price includes 2 weekend intensives, which begin and end the program
$360 deposit required by the first weekend – applied to the last 2 months of the program.
Students are obligated to pay for every class. If a class is missed, the instructors schedule a private meeting to cover missed material, but payment is due at the date of the class. All classes will be recorded, but please note that the IEA awards points differently for live vs. recorded classes and prefers the former for accreditation.
There are sliding scale spots reserved for students who are unable to afford the full cost.
Objectives
Differentiate types
Differentiate instincts and subtypes
Observe and differentiate non-verbal aspects (energetics) of types
Explore your own type biases
Develop interviewing and/or presentation skills
Assess of your strengths and growth areas
Body awareness and centering practices
Learn Enneagram Embodiment techniques
Participant Goals
Understand the Enneagram deeply
Learn how to teach, facilitate, and/or provide consultation using the Enneagram effectively
Transform your Enneagram patterns - from strategies (beliefs, feelings, and behaviors) that are painful and limited to strategies that help you get our deepest needs met and make you available for real connection to others and yourself
Discover the liberated essence of the Types and the open awareness/consciousness beyond the Enneagram
Continuing Education Units
This program provides over 75 face to face Continuing Education Credits CEUs that can be applied to a variety of professional licenses through the North Carolina Board of Behavioral Sciences.
Points toward becoming an IEA Accredited Professional
The hours you attend in this program may be applied toward becoming an Accredited Professional with IEA. Each hour is worth 1 point toward professional accreditation - a complete certification = 75 points.
Format
18 3-hour classes on Saturdays or Sundays (twice a month)
2 weekend intensives
Participants are encouraged to engage in a private on-going virtual discussion group created for each cohort
Cohorts are kept small. Our sweet spot is 8-10 people to provide an intense learning experience. Participants tend to bond closely and form connections that last beyond the program. The inter-cohort dynamics enhance both formal and informal learning components of the training.
We schedule all the meetings together in advance. When participants are unable to attend a class for extenuating circumstances, they are still obligated to pay for the class due at the date of the class and set up a private meeting with the instructors to cover missed material. All classes are recorded and shared with the cohort.
The first step is a weekend intensive to build a foundation of connection and trust so that we all move into the program receptive and ready to embrace the psycho-spiritual depth of this work.
After the initial weekend intensive, each class (two per month) focuses on an Enneagram type. Types is described and demonstrated by through videos, recordings, and panels. Program participants are strongly encouraged to invite friends and family to sit on panels. Panel volunteers are interviewed with respect and compassion to make their experience as comfortable as possible.
Classes include watching and processing videos and panels, discussion reactions from our own fixations, leaning how to embody the pattern, and working to release and transform the pattern to return to essence.
The last step is a weekend intensive, which provides the final supportive structure needed to move out into the world as an enneagram teacher, facilitator, and consultant in the Embodiment Tradition.
Curriculum
Participants learn how to facilitate using the Enneagram including how to describe and demonstrate the types, instincts and subtypes, movement, and pattern transformation. Participants will learn how to describe and differentiate the hierarchy of instincts, wings, movement and a second stage of pattern release.
Participants learn how to share with others the idea that we are born with a pattern – a way of seeing, understanding, and responding that is not personal, unique or individual. They learn how to share how to use the Enneagram as a tool for liberation and freedom. They learn that recognizing and accepting these patterns is the first step in a much bigger journey to liberation.
Participants learn how to introduce others to the Enneagram in a way that represents its psycho-spiritual power and original purpose. If this is done well and the teaching resonates, people often go on to delve deeper into their healing process. If it is not done well, people may find the information interesting but not understand its deep importance and power. When the Enneagram teaching is clear and deep it is a path to freedom from a contracted heart, mind, and body.
Facilitating the Enneagram can be dynamic and demonstrative. The energetic expression of each pattern can be acted out so that participants can see and feel the difference between each pattern. When the Enneagram is taught only descriptively it can be confusing because we all share so many behaviors, tendencies, and emotions. When the energetic dynamic is embodied and acted out, people get a somatic feel for what is deeper than the personality or behavior. The underlying motivations influencing each type are presented in body language, talking style, and general demeanor. A skilled teacher has processed and transcended enough of their own Enneagram pattern to cleanly embody each of the other patterns.